This is just sort of a stream of thought from somebody who has been glued to my screen tracking the drama from the past week or so., and also watched the digg exodus happen (although I never used digg, just watched it from reddit's perspective)...
I totally agree. And I think as well, talking about Fedi software as a "Reddit killer" sets the wrong expectations. It reminds me of how you see some people describing Mastodon as "failed" because Twitter still has however many users and Mastodon has a lot less. But Mastodon isn't trying to be a "Twitter killer"; it's its own thing, and with the sheer number of active users and conversations etc. I'd say it's perfectly successful being its own thing. The same can be true of Kbin and Lemmy.
Of course, I'd be thrilled to see the big centralised sites decline into obscurity and the Fediverse (in all its heterogeneity) take its place. But unlike VC-backed overhyped apps, it just doesn't need to explode to 100 million users in no time flat to be considered a success. If people think Kbin or Lemmy are going to "kill" Reddit overnight they'll be disappointed, but if we calibrate our expectations right then we can focus on cultivating a great community in the here and now, which makes for a more appealing space for people who come along later.
I'm really excited to jump on the Activitypub/Fediverse train, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around how it works. Kbin is federated (or its supposed to be, apparently DDoS protection is hampering that?), but I'm not sure how I can sign up with my Mastodon account. I already have one, @ArchieBAntlers , and apparently...
I think that means there's at least one kbin.social account who follows that Mastodon account, or at least that those posts have been boosted by accounts followed by Kbin users. As a result, kbin.social would've generated a local profile for that person so you can see the posts of his that have federated here. Similar to how when you use Mastodon, you can see a version of accounts on other instances' profiles without leaving your own instance.
Yeah, I downvoted a post and now it's showing up on my profile as a boost. I'm not sure whether a bug occurred or if my finger slipped and I did accidentally boost it, but either way I'd appreciate having a way to unboost it 🙁
(Update: This has now happened with a comment I downvoted too, so I'm thinking bug. Retracting the downvote didn't unboost either post, either!)
Yikes! Reddit turning off mobile access to reddit.
Contrary to some of the discourse on rexxit, I don't think the goal should be a "reddit killer" - just to breath life into this corner of the fediverse
This is just sort of a stream of thought from somebody who has been glued to my screen tracking the drama from the past week or so., and also watched the digg exodus happen (although I never used digg, just watched it from reddit's perspective)...
ELI5: ActivityPub and federation
I'm really excited to jump on the Activitypub/Fediverse train, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around how it works. Kbin is federated (or its supposed to be, apparently DDoS protection is hampering that?), but I'm not sure how I can sign up with my Mastodon account. I already have one, @ArchieBAntlers , and apparently...
OC Are boosts supposed to be eternal?
As a test, I have boosted an article, and then removed the boost afterwards....